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From about an hour and 6 minutes to an hour and 15 minutes you get some clips from mid-March 1987.

Thanks for sharing, @Vee . I'm sorry that Bobby and Shelley and Audrey never truly had endings but for the most part I think the show ended in a way that makes sense for the universe Lynch and Frost created. If Frost doesn't want to move forward, I respect that choice.

There's also a certain late '70s earnestness and cheese that can be tiresome in the first season, mainly in the Karen-heavy PSA episodes. That tends to fade, at least until that equally tiresome Pollyana speech in the last season.

Thanks @Maxim Another reminder of how quickly some of these stories go. And how much Cain is just sort of thrown into stories during his time on the canvas rather than necessarily feeling genuine, in spite of Chris Cousins' natural appeal. I think they may have been better off having Max in Cain's role during this story, especially given Blair's involvement. He might not have gone after Renee, but that could have been tweaked.

Thanks. I was not really watching during anything with Ava and Bill. I did have memories of Lewis Construction in the Dylan years. I guess considering our current policy is to destroy any energy but fossil fuels, we can say GL was ahead of its time.

At about 17 minutes there's a behind the scenes feature on Sheila's 1995 stay in the nuthouse, including interviews with Kimberlin Brown, Faith Minton and Spice Williams (who played two of Sheila's tormentors).

Thanks. I am trying to remember that '90s story. I was still watching then but zoned out, clearly. I guess that last story was from Jordan winning an Emmy. Thanks again for knowing all these details. Dinah would name something Maximus...

Thanks.

I also have a memory of that Rob wearing a choker or a puka shell necklace...if there was ever a time to have a smarmy bisexual whore in male form on a soap that was it. '80s Reva would have loved him, I'm sure. Tim Adams was a very good looking guy but they never had any real purpose for him - I think he was there for some drama with Richard/Cassie and everyone knew how it was going to end. It would have been more interesting if he'd returned happy and with a new wife and kid and Cassie lashed out at him, resenting the years she wasted on him, which Edmund could have used against her.

That and the actor who played the first Rob "cheap trade" Layne...I wonder which episode those scenes of them rolling around on a bed is from.

@MLH I can't find your exact post, but regarding what you said about the recast Roger not being able to play Roger's signature stories, like raping Holly, I do agree with that. I think Roger was just not recastable, but Dennis Parlato was more suited to playing the levels of Clay on Loving (who was on the surface similar - messy relationship with his daughter, businessman, loved the ladies, haunted, but underneath was a very different character). I liked Dennis on Loving and I wanted to give him a chance, but I just couldn't after what P&G did to Zaslow. And he seemed very ill-at-ease to me, as if even he knew the whole thing was wrong.

I think this was kind of a mess backstage (although I may be wrong), similar to some of the issues the show had in the mid/late '00s with real life actor relationships. That may be one of the reasons why Rauch hit the brakes on the relationship...although it may have just been that he realized what Laibson didn't, that Wendy Moniz was better at playing an insecure bitch than a heroine. I would see some fans at the time insist that Dinah had been ruined after she went so dark in the late '90s, and I would think - ruined from what? Lonitrat? Unless they were hardcore Jennifer Gatti or Paige Turco fans, I didn't buy it.

Thanks. I'd forgotten Matt was in construction too. This may also be why GL in the '90s was big on some characters designing and building their own houses. They would have loved the HGTV peak years.

Thanks. I do remember Construction getting more focus, as Josh was more in construction (wasn't there some story in the early '00s about an accident on a site that was tied to that bad Catalina illegal immigrant story [boy imagine the reaction to that story now]).

The most I tend to remember of her at WSPR is sitting in the office. I don't even remember how much we get of that soon. I always loved the WSPR office and the Lewis Oil offices - mainly Vanessa's. The colors appealed to me. They looked less like sets than the Spaulding offices did. It also seemed like as the years passed, we just saw anything Spaulding go through Alan's library, or office, or whatever it was. I guess in the Peapack years they may have passed off an empty warehouse as a Spaulding office? What did happen to Lewis Oil in GL's last decade? Did Billy run it? Was it just running itself offcamera?

There can't be enough talk about this time period as it's so unique to the show and to soaps in general. I always enjoy reading your analyses.

Thanks @slick jones I had a thing for Zelkjo Ivanek when he was on Homicide.

I don't mind if characters like Sonny. It's better to just cut to the chase rather than having characters give big righteous speeches about him which go nowhere. The problem is the show always needs to make sure we know characters love Sonny more than they love anyone else. I also think Carly would have been more interesting if they had kept her mob involvement where it was for Sarah Brown's first few years - not caring, and at times even thinking she should have some power (which she would not known what to do with). One of my favorite Carly scenes back in the day was around the time of Brenda getting shot in the arm, when Carly made some kind of mob decision and Jason got pissed at her.

Beyond working at the paper or taking photographs it's hard to remember her working in the '80s. Her longest lasting job is talk show host. Thanks. Vanessa makes more sense to me as the owner.

A very gracious response from Susan Seaforth Hayes. https://www.instagram.com/p/DL77hEfvTPW/

I think it was the same house and they just changed the design under Rauch but I'm not completely sure.

I wonder if Vanessa and Alex had any real interaction in the mid '00s when Vanessa was finally acting like her true self again and Marj's Alex was finally more restrained.

Josh probably pays for everything with the kids. The rest I would just assume HB paid for, in offcameraland, as he adored her. Either that or Alan. Did he have some role in buying the house for her? I can't remember.

Many of us did think the role would be open for Chad, but that seemed to be just assumptions due to past history. I can see where fans who loved his Michael might be upset that they recast - and that the recast has seemingly been well-received - but it's not going to do Chad any good if fans rake the matter over. And involving Kirsten may just remind her of the whole situation with Jen Lilley which at times got ugly.